It's the great debate about the debates. President Obama and Mitt Romney are going head to head soon in an attempt to win your vote. But do the faceoffs really matter? Some experts say people are more interested in seeing a train-wreck moment than in hearing substance.

Arizona and officials in other Republican-led states are quietly designing an insurance exchange — one of the most essential and controversial requirements of the new health care law, The New York Times reports.

Mitt Romney criticized President Obama on Sunday for refusing to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during this week’s United Nations General Assembly meeting, accusing the president of distancing the US from an important Middle East ally. The New York Times reports.

President Barack Obama holds clear leads over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in three more swing states—Wisconsin, Colorado and Iowa—according to new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist College polls.

Mitt Romney said "There are 47 percent of the people who pay no income tax." Who are these people, and why are they exempt? Click to see which states have the highest number of people who pay no federal income tax.

Going beyond Mitt Romney's reference to 47 percent not paying federal income taxes, we looked at the rest of the secretly recorded video and found other instances where Romney’s facts do not always add up.

One study has found that the top 1 percent of filers earning over $400,000 raked in about $258 billion in reduced taxes through deductions and exclusions. The top 10 percent of filers took in more than $435 billion in reduced taxes.

Mitt Romney says he cares about the poor and middle class as he tries to stem criticism over secretly recorded comments that he doesn't worry about the half of the country that doesn't pay federal income taxes.

The states that donate the most in total to presidential campaigns are the most populous, like California. When the same data is crunched to determine a per-household basis, states with small populations are among the largest donors.

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a fundraising event earlier this year that “there are 47 percent who are with him (Obama), who are dependent upon the government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to take care of them.”